NZ prepaid provider that supports barring of roaming

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#305822 6-Jun-2023 14:33

Vodafone NZ/One NZ appear to be unwilling or unable to bar roaming.

That has prompted me to look at another provider who offers this as a service. Basically I’m keen to do full time wifi calling on my primary device.

I’ve read on Geekzone previous that folks have had similar issues with 2 Degrees and that Sparks wifi calling is still limited to voice and not SMS.

Any pointers?

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#3085576 6-Jun-2023 15:31

why not prevent roaming on your phone?

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#3085583 6-Jun-2023 15:38

I want to force wifi/mobile data calling. iOS only allows me to block roaming data.

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#3085590 6-Jun-2023 15:52

if you put your phone in flight mode, when you connect to wifi it’ll switch to wifi calling automatically while remaining in flight mode, disconnected from the towers.

I’m doing this overseas now via my iPhone on 2degrees and it works fine.
My partner with an iPhone on spark is doing the same no issues.

Not sure why the carriers would give you grief about turning off roaming, I’ve done that before at 2degrees years and years ago but maybe a policy has changed at some.

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#3085651 6-Jun-2023 16:31

I’m trying to get the best of both worlds… I have a local sim with heaps of data and want to use mobile data or wifi for wifi calling (which is possible if the roaming sim can’t connect to the network).

I might check out 2D - if it works with them, I might just port over (I have a spare esim with them).

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#3085658 6-Jun-2023 16:44

I just checked in the One NZ portal. It says it can be disabled by calling 777.

Maybe you got a operator who didn’t know that?

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#3085713 6-Jun-2023 19:24

That was my thought too.
I've spoken to 3x agents so far, got two paths appear to be emerging - one is emailing @jasonparis... the other is porting out my service to 2Degrees.

I have spoken to 2 Degrees who were happy to put a roaming bar on one of my esims so porting to that is a fallback position. As a consumer, still have a decent spend (~300/month) with One and would prefer to keep everything under one house.

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#3085722 6-Jun-2023 19:58

I just had a look at my one.nz account online. On the Roaming settings for my Flex Prepay phone it says:
"To turn roaming off, please call us on 777 from NZ or +64 9 355 2007 from overseas."

I'm pretty sure once upon a time you could turn roaming on and off in account settings online.

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#3085740 6-Jun-2023 20:43

It needs to be a ticket to disable roaming completely.

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#3085811 6-Jun-2023 23:17

Many thanks. :)

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#3085824 7-Jun-2023 07:36

Wouldn't you just have a zero pre-pay balance?

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#3085825 7-Jun-2023 07:50

Can you still receive SMS txt when roaming is turned off? I had to verify my credit card payments via txt code while overseas, which my trip you if you can't read your SMS messages.

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#3085826 7-Jun-2023 07:57

eugeneykc:

Can you still receive SMS txt when roaming is turned off? I had to verify my credit card payments via txt code while overseas, which my trip you if you can't read your SMS messages.

@eugeneykc No the handset can not logon to a mobile network

The OP is going to use WiFi calling that can get SMS delivered over it

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#3085827 7-Jun-2023 08:03

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eugeneykc:

Can you still receive SMS txt when roaming is turned off? I had to verify my credit card payments via txt code while overseas, which my trip you if you can't read your SMS messages.

@eugeneykc No the handset can not logon to a mobile network

The OP is going to use WiFi calling that can get SMS delivered over it

I use Spark, and apparently, they do not support SMS / MMS over wifi yet, but good to know One and 2degrees will.

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#3085828 7-Jun-2023 08:10

Yes I should of mentioned Spark do not support SMS over WiFi calling yet

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#3086585 8-Jun-2023 14:47

Spark also do not support Wi-Fi calling while outside NZ, so even if they do allow blocking roaming on prepay it may not work. I know you can block it on postpaid.

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